If you’re anywhere near Massachusetts tonight, that’s the title of my talk in Stoughton at the Ahavath Torah Congregation, the big synagogue on Central Street. It’s an easy drive from Boston, Rhode Island, and not that far from Labrador, come to think of it. If you’re an NR reader, I’d love to see you there.

I’d also add that Rabbi Hausman is a good friend of free speech at a time when we could use a few more. In this country as in others, “free speech” is decaying into ever more narrowly defined “approved speech.” I see that Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury who came out in favor of accommodating sharia law five years ago, is launching a new book today on Islam And English Law, whose blurb promises to address the question:

Should freedom of speech be restrained to protect Muslims’ sensibilities?